Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-06-24
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

What the Newspapers Say of Men and
Women of More or Less Fame.
The president is an expert in rose garden
ing.
Mark Twain talks of endowing home for
pumped out humorists.
Gen. Boulanger's wife is a rabid hater of
England and everything English.
Smith Higgins is the king of the dry goods
business of New York and worth $50, 100000
NJ. de Lesseps is about to bring out a vol
ume of Souvenirs covering a period of forty
years in his eventful life
Ahmed Ben Ahmar, an Algerian who has
just died, killed eighty lions and as many
panthers during his time
Comedian w. J. Florence is going to Lon
don soon, and while there will be the guest Of
Henry Irving.
The health of James D. Fish continues to
grow worse, and it is thought that he will be
pardoned to avoid his death in prison.
Anna Dickinson says she has had sew
eral offers to go upon the dramatic stage.
She thinks she will go to Europe.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries the
idea of female emancipation SO far as to de-
mand that half the police force in large cities
consist of women.
The Cardiff Waes) Western Mail an
nounces the death at the age of GA of Mr.. G.
James Dyson Perrins, of the firm of Lea. &
Perrins, the makers of the famous Worces-
ter sauce.
A. j. Drexel, Philadelphia's millionaire
banker, has built Greek temple of exqui-
sitely carved white italian marble to be used
as mausoleum. The floor is seven feet
thick
Phillippoteaux, the celebrated French
painter, whose "Siege Of Paris" has been
greatly admired in this country, is now paint
ing cyclorama of Niagara Falls.
= The widow Of Anthony Trollope is described
as charming old lady with lovely white
hair. She is still one of the lights of the
literary society in London
Friar Anderledy, the successor of Friar
Beckx as superior general of the Society of
Jesuits, is famous as linguist. He can speak
and write every important language in the
world.
Bob Ford, who killed Jesse James, is en-
p1oyed as a waiter in a Santa Fe hotel Bob
Littell and another member of the old James
gang are also in Santa Fe, dead broke, and
hangers on about the saloons.
Mrs. Helen Cougar has sent an open letter
to the women of Kansas, who are to vote in
the municipal elections, saying: 'You will
be required to give your name. Do not give
your husbands name or your pet name, but
the one by which you were christened."
Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford spent
Monday in Albany perfecting arrangements
for the Lathrop Memorial Home for aged
women While there Senator Stanford said
that during his Boston visit he had decided on
the plans for the Stanford university build
ings. The buildings will be grouped in a
quadrangle, will be constructed of California
sandstone, and will be Moorish in design.
Work upon seven of the buildings will be be-
gun this summer.
Gen. Sheridan has sunny corner room in
the new war department building fitted up
with furniture of his own choosing. Several
cabinets are filed with Indian pottery and
curios, and the walls are covered with paint
ings of western scenery with buffalos and
Indians in the foreground. Black Kettles
war belt is as dear to him as peachblow
vase, and Sioux war club is the chief treas
ure in the collection.
Adelina Patti is in her Nth year and Lilli
LeHlldun Ill Hef 4oGu DotH are singing
superbly, and immense audiences are spell
bound by their beautiful voices The fact,
says The Musical Courier, is a lesson for
young vocalists who are ambitious to be full
fedged soloists in few summers, and who
expect to acquire before they are 25 what can
alone come with long experience and normal
development.
Mr.. S. c. Lister, the 4silk king" of Eng
land, is more than 70 years old, but stout and
hearty and busy every day with the concerns
of his great factories and landed estates. He
invented wool combing by machinery, velvet
and plush making by machinery, and the
utilization of silk waste. He spent S3,O00,000
in developing those industries, and has made
more than $250000 year out of each OF
them. He says he never went in for any
thing in which he did not confidently see over
$3.50 600 a year